The Mathematical Sciences Library was set up as a resource/information centre to serve national and international communities as a focal point for advance research and training in mathematical sciences and applications. The Centre also provides for a library comprising such books, journals, records reports and other publications and information systems.
It therefore, sets out to fill in the vacuum created by inadequacy of relevant textbooks and learned journals required for adequate research. In this light, it attempts to meet the needs of Researchers in the Mathematical sciences from both within and outside the Country, through the provision of adequate and relevant research facilities for researchers.
Our library and other information sources attached to it is being well developed that whatever information one seeks in the mathematical sciences can almost certainly be located there somewhere. This had always informed our plans in the building up of the stock of journals and textbooks and in the expansion of the facilities for disseminating information to University Mathematical Sciences departments and University Libraries in respect of textbooks acquisitions, the titles and content pages of journals received on a regular basis.
The library as of now is not so adequate because of lack of current and recent issues of journals and books.
This disseminating service has proved to be most invaluable to research workers in the Universities. Efforts to establish a Library that compares favourable with those in developed countries are still pursued. With a Committee like the one being inaugurated today, we are certain that the day of glory is not far away.
The Mathematical Sciences Library is one the most comprehensive libraries of its kind in the country. It presently has a subscription to 178 international journals and a collection of over 2,000 textbooks in the Mathematical Sciences.
Vision
1. To establish a library (resource centre) of excellence that is second to none in the mathematical sciences in the West African sub-region.
2. To provide an ultra-modern computerized library which will serve as an international resource centre fully equipped with books and journals in their formats including and especially, direct access to the Internet.
The library is computerized and can accommodate at least 300 readers at a time.
Regularly on monthly basis, the Centre's Library service disseminates information on current journals and texts to Departments of Mathematical Sciences, libraries and other researchers in the nation's universities.
The Library has the following units:
1. Administration
2. Technical Services
3. Readers Services
Problems :There is a need to fund the Library well in order to facilitate research. Gaps in the collection of journals must be prevented to maintain the expectation of the mathematical scientists throughout the country as well as maintain Centre's gains.
